A survey developed by Sine asks respondents for their new business ideas, as well as specifics on their socio-economic background, education, experience, networks, personality traits, and career aspirations. Sine plans to track the progress of turning those ideas into viable businesses with six-month follow-up surveys. In addition to tracking the students at each of the universities, researchers will randomly survey business people and a local university that does not offer entrepreneurship courses.
Sine has also been conducting entrepreneurship research in Colombia. The study, called "Declining Insurgencies," investigates the welfare of almost 1,000 entrepreneurs in Colombia and reports that the survival rate for small businesses in Colombia have doubled since 2001, due largely to a sharp decrease in violence and the ensuing rapid economic growth.
Sine was also awarded a $12,000 grant from Cornell's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies for "The Failure of Political Institutions and New Venture Survival" and received one of 12 fellowships for fall 2008 from Cornell's Institute of Social Sciences.
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